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A. J. TERRY.

BOLTING REEL.

1 No. 312,672. Patented Feb. 24, 1885.

250122155555 INvEhgmR wffiwwig FIE if W Byhis Aiiy Mimv Tiaras ilrra ANDREW J. TERRY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO EDW'IN F. ADAMS, OF SAME PLACE.

BOLTING-REEL.

fiPECIE'ICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,672, dated February 2%, 1885.

Application filed January 19, 1854.

T aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. TERRY, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bolting-Reels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of my said invention, and of the manner in which I proceed to construct and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to boltingreels; and it consists in certain novel features of construction hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out inthe claims.

.In the drawings referred to, Figure 1 is a side View of my improved reel. Fig. 2 is an end View taken from the left-hand side of Fig. 1, one-half of the head being shown in section.

Fig. 3 is a similar view taken from the opposite side, and showing that head in one'half section. Fig. 4 is a detail of one of the sections or compartments removed from the frame.

A represents the reel-shaft; B B, the heads, 2 and O C the sections, that, when placed and fixed within the heads, constitute the boltingcompartments, each one of which receives its charge of chop or meal independently of the others. These sections are constructed of a 0 frame, a c a over which the bolting-cloth c is stretched, and the ends have openings 0. In a reel of polygonal form these sections will have at least three sides or bolting-surfaces, of which one will form the outer or peripheral 5 surface, while the others will stand at equal angle with it and come together at a point near the axis. Each side has about the same area of bolting-surface, and the sections are set at uniform distance around the axis, with 0 a clear space between the adjacent sides of every two sections. The length of the sections is governed by the size of the reel desired. Two or more sections may be set in line to give the required length; or long sections may 4 5 be employed to extend from one head to the other. With short sections, an intermediate head, B, will be fixed to the shaft between adjacent sections as a support.

To confine the sections in place, I employ 5o clamp-bars d d and brackets d d, secured to (No model.)

the end of each arm of the head, one bracket, d, being fixed, and the other one hinged to turn back clear of the end of the bar (2, as a means of allowing it to be removed and replaced at pleasure. Pins or screws d take through the brackets into the bar and hold it in place across the end of the section. This affords a means of taking out or placing any section without disturbing the others.

In the spaces between the sections are fixed loose flexible surfaces of cloth, such as oilcloth, or other similar close but pliable fabric, having their end edges fixed to locking-strips E, but their upper and lower edges unconfined. Their surfaces between the iixed edges have sufficient pliability and amount of play to allow them to strike against the adjacent bolting-surfaces presented toward them. The oftice ofthese loose flapping surfaces E is to beat against and fan the sides of the bolting-compartments, and there is one such beater, as I have termed them, provided to each boltingsurface within the reel. Each pair of such heaters is fixed to locking-strips of wedge shape, and a means for securing them within the spaces between the sect-ions is provided on the inner sides of the arms I) b. This device consists of a fixed strip, f, a hinged clamp-- ing-strip, g, pivoted to the head at g, and a hasp or hook, h, to engage with the upper end, g This construction is shown in Fig. 2. By removing the hasp h and moving back the clamping-strip g, the strips, with the beatercloths fixed to them, can be taken out. Such a reel has therefore a number of compartments that are in their operation independent of one another.

As each section requires separate feed, it is obvious that the feed-head must be constructed and adapted to such purpose. This may be provided for by forming a common receiving-chamber, I, with a spout, J, through which the material is supplied from a hopper or an elevator, and then placing against the side of the head at each inlet-opening of the sections a spiral wing or plate, K, the inner edge of which is in line with the back edge of the inlet, while the outer edge projecting forward runs in close relation to the inside surface of the'case 1. These spirals then form so many scoops to take up and direct the matter within the chamber I into the inlet-openings of the 2. The combination, with the bolting-frame and separate boltingcompartments, of the brackets d d and clamping-bars d, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A bolting-reel having the separate bolting-compartments, and provisions for the independent feeding and discharging from each separately, the brackets (1 d and clamping bars (2, and the beater-cloths E, applied as here- 2 5 in setforth.

ANDREW J. TERRY. [n s.]

Witnesses:

EDWARD E. OSBORN,

EDWIN F. ADAMS. 

